Film Studies For Free brings you an entry that has come about because of a piece of Facebook crowdsourcing by film curator extraordinaire Herb Shellenberger. Shellenberger requested from his friends any links they had to free online streaming platforms for films and moving image work. He was especially interested in ones that are run by archives, and most interested in those outside the US/UK.

A wonderful list of links was rapidly assembled to a wide variety of international platforms, only some of which FSFF has tweeted or blogged about before. So, courtesy of Shellenberger and his friends, below is the list (with acknowledgement given to the individual suggesting each link - thanks especially to Patrick Friel for his extensive contribution, along with Herb).

If you have any further suggestions to make for the list, please use the Comments thread below.

The American Indian Film Gallery (AIFG) is an online collection of more than 450 historic films by and about Native peoples of the Americas, compiled and digitized by historian J. Fred MacDonald over many years. These films range in date from 1925-2010. https://aifg.arizona.edu(thanks to Patrick Friel)

Chicago Film Archives - a regional film archive dedicated to identifying, collecting, preserving and providing access to films that represent the US Midwest http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org (Thanks to Lori Felker)

Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire Over 150 films are available for viewing online, all showing images of life in the British colonies http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk(thanks to Patrick Friel)

Daazo Shortfilms European shortfilms and social media platformhttp://www.daazo.com(thanks to Zsolt Gyenge)

Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art - not a completely free platform but you can rent out presentation rights for research use and watch some free previews as well http://www.av-arkki.fi(thanks to Viika Sankila)

Filmsdivision - Quasi-dysfunctional (but incredible) online archive of Films Division - the Indian state-run production house of government propaganda designed to "maintain a cinematic record of Indian history." http://filmsdivision.org/category/archives(thanks to Ashim Ahluwalia)

Folkstreams maintains a huge archive of (mostly) American (mostly) short documentaries that chronicle lesser-seen elements of American culture http://www.folkstreams.net (thanks to Alexander Lesher)

Indiancine.ma - an annotated online archive of Indian film. It is intended to serve as a shared resource for film scholars and enthusiasts in India and beyond. https://indiancine.ma(thanks to Ashim Ahluwalia)

Thanhouser Films Online - free streaming video to all 56 films currently available on the Thanhouser DVD collection (those directed, produced and distributed by the Thanhouser Company, the pioneering American motion picture studio of New Rochelle, New York) https://www.thanhouser.org/videos-online.htm(thanks to Patrick Friel)

Vectors Journal - a forum for "works that need, for whatever reason, to exist in multimedia. In so doing, we aim to explore the immersive and experiential dimensions of emerging scholarly vernaculars across media platforms." http://vectors.usc.edu/journal/index.php

Videonale - online archive of one of the most important and renowned festivals of video art and time-based arts in Germany and Europe http://archiv.videonale.org/en/(thanks to Maz Grau)

Western Front Society Vimeo channel - maintains an extensive, digitized archive of experimental work created and presented over the past thirty years, and is committed to preserving the legacy of Canada’s artistic community. https://vimeo.com/westernfrontsociety(Thanks to Pablo de Ocampo)

Wild Film History - multi-media guide to the history and heritage of wildlife filmmaking with numerous streamable films and clips http://www.wildfilmhistory.org (thanks to Patrick Friel)

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